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in_the_know
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 Posted - 09/13/2017 : 13:54:42
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It will be interesting to watch the recruiting strategy at UGA if Stricklin continues to be the HC there. He has been VERY clear in communicating to prospects he offers that he expects them to arrive on campus and not consider going pro. This can/will turn off the very high prospects to a degree. I know of some things that transpired over the last year that indicate he is not at all supportive of HS prospects facing the opportunity to be drafted and sign vs. attending school once committed. While that strategy may work well where he previously coached, if you want to successfully recruit the top regional talent, in and out of state, in the SEC, you have to make risks on more than one or two commits that have pro options. If you fish in the small pond, you'll likely get small fish.
Baseball America just released their 2017 Recruiting Class Rankings now that players have shown up on campus and nine of the top 25 teams are in the SEC, including 5 of the top 6 (Vanderbilt, UF, Arkansas, Auburn, South Carolina, with Arizona State being the lone non-SEC school in that 6). All of those schools have players that were drafted and didn't go pro and some that were drafted and signed, so you have to take a chance. |
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CaCO3Girl
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Posted - 09/13/2017 : 15:03:12
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Originally posted by bama21
It really isn't about the number of commitments, that will vary by year, but rather the quality of each.
According to PG rankings for Georgia:
2019 Commitments- UGA has 2 out of the top 25 and Ga. Tech has 2.
2018 Commitments- UGA has 2 out of the top 25 and Ga. Tech has 3.
A lot of variables go into these decisions i.e. everyone judges talent differently, the needs of the program that particular year, top players turned down offer....and so on. We will never know what happens with each top prospect, but you would think that most of the top talent in Georgia would have some inclination to want to stay home.
I agree.
I was speaking more to the "They don't recruit early enough and all the top players go somewhere else."
If there are only 3 kids committed in the class of 2020 for the state don't you think they are recruiting early enough? Also, Georgia is kind of hard to get into. They can't verbal a kid with a 2.8 that has always done bad on their standardized tests, they won't get past admissions. |
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bama21
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Posted - 09/14/2017 : 06:59:40
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| 24 of the top 50 PG nationally ranked 2020 players have committed, of those, 1 player is from Georgia. The one from Georgia is going out of state; however, I know he was offered and did not take it. There are still 9 or 10 from Georgia in the top 100, we'll have to see if they stay home. |
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